Sefton Council and One Vision Housing are launching My Place, a project to tackle the rise in rough sleeping across the Borough, reports MySefton News. Funded by the Government’s Rough Sleepers Initiative, the project will provide properties for eight rough sleepers in Sefton. They will be supported to independent living through My Place which will provide bespoke person-centred […]
The cost of housing homeless people in Liverpool could be as much as £90m in the next few years, reports the BBC. Liverpool City Council said it had seen demand for temporary accommodation rise in recent years, in part due to cost-of-living pressures and so-called “no fault evictions”. While the council said it had managed […]
A record-high 4,793 people were counted as sleeping rough across England in autumn 2025. Homelessness minister Alison McGovern has written to councils over reports children are homeless on the streets, reports the Big Issue. Homelessness minister Alison McGovern has written to councils warning of families with children being left homeless on England’s streets as new […]
The city council is to enter into a new contract in a bid to reduce the number of temporary beds needed, reports the Liverpool Echo. More than 1,600 households across Liverpool are in temporary accommodation with some having to be housed outside the city. Homelessness continues to be one of the growing cost pressures facing […]
The country’s homelessness legislation is ambitious and humane, but too many people are still sleeping on the streets or in temporary accommodation, reports the Guardian. Rough sleeping in Scotland has risen by 106% over the past three years. Record numbers of children are now living in temporary accommodation, official figures released this month show. In […]
The government’s Everyone In homelessness initiative launched at the start of the pandemic was a “missed opportunity” to end rough sleeping for good, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has heard. Acting for homelessness charity Shelter, Martin Westgate KC told a hearing for the inquiry’s final module on Tuesday (17 February) that “on its own terms”, the […]
The Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill has passed through the Senedd and will now become law. It promises to transform Wales’ homelessness system to focus on prevention, reports the Big Issue. The Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill completed its journey through the Welsh parliament on Tuesday (10 February) with housing secretary […]
More and more women are being ‘pushed towards homelessness’, reports the Independent. “Women are affected by the housing crisis more than any other demographic,” says Katie*, 40, a single mother from East London. The mother-of-two is currently living in temporary accommodation after leaving an abusive relationship in late 2024, first spending a year in a hotel. […]
The government can make our country affordable again for everyone. Ben Cooper, research manager at Fabian Housing Centre, writes in the Big Issue. Millions of people are in a daily struggle to afford the roof over their head. Around 2.6 million people are pushed into poverty because their housing costs are so high. Housing is both a major monthly expense […]
The number of refugee households who are homeless or at risk of homelessness increased by more than 15,000 in four years, reports the BBC. There has been a five-fold increase in the number of refugee households who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in the last four years, the BBC has found. Government data […]
